Description: 5-story plus basement, and subbasement,
supported by 40 steel columns, buff brick trimmed with Indiana limestone,
approximately 160x60 feet, containing chapel, offices, classrooms, museum,
photo and x-ray rooms, amphitheatre, and labs
The eight profiles surrounding the main doorway are of: Julius Friedrich
Cohnheim, William H. Welch, Marie Francois Zavier Bichat, Giovanni Battista
Morgagni, Carl Freiheer Von Rokitinsky, John Hunter, Rudoph Virchow, and
Louis Pasteur.
The motifs under the windows are from shields for six medieval guilds: Barber
Surgeons of London, Physicians of London, Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh,
Barber Surgeons of Brussels, Apothecaries of Nuremberg, and Medici of the
Della Robbia period
This property continued in use after 1949. Post-1949 research is not yet completed.
Other Names
Institute of Pathology
Pathological Laboratory
Pathological Building
Constructed
1928-1929
Architect
Abram Garfield
General Contractor
Crowell & Little
Cost
$690,536
Financing
Gift of up to $750,000 from the
General Education Board
